Owen Flanagan is a philosopher of mind who spends his professional life tackling the so-called "hard problem" of consciousness.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Cultural Critic Richard Todd looked at modern life and saw others telling what is and isn't real.
Peter Larson is a professional paleontologist and commercial fossil hunter. His book is “Rex Appeal: The Story of Sue, the Dinosaur that Changed Science, the Law and My Life.”
Malcolm Gladwell talks about the power of our tendency to make snap judgements and how important it is for our survival as a species.
Paul Hoffman is the author of “Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight.” Hoffman tells Jim Fleming that Santos-Dumont’s craft (which he tethered to a light-post outside Maxim’s while he had dinner) was a motorized hot air balloon.
Video game designer Jason Rohrer tells Anne Strainchamps about his game "Passage," which is about mortality, not just an adrenalin rush.
Robert Orsi talks about the role of angels and saints in Catholicism pre-Vatican II and insists that people’s relationships with them are real, whether or not the spirits are.
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